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I live and blog in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan BA and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. The Institute of Land Warfare, Army magazine, Infantry Magazine, Military Review, Naval Institute Proceedings, and Joint Force Quarterly have published my occasional articles. See "Published Works" on the web version for citations.

The Undead Archives

My undead archives pre-Blogger were actually restored to life after Geocities sites went dark. Start at the old home page here.
If you find a link to the old site on the current site or old site, you should be able to replace the "g" in "geocities" with an "r" and make a good link.
Another archived site is here.
It replaces the ".com" with ".ws".
I hope to move all the older archives here (and started that project) but it is really tedious.

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Not A Long Time Ago,

In a city far, far away,

Americans were left to die without support as their facilities in Benghazi were attacked on September 11, 2012.

The security personnel at the CIA annex in Benghazi rushed to the sound of the guns.

The State Department reaction force in Tripoli rushed to the sound of the guns.

But none of our tens of thousands of troops in Europe could be roused to even begin to head for Benghazi?

No aircraft--even unarmed--could be sent to buzz the area? When our enemies have learned over the prior decade of fighting us that engaging our forces for any significant time risks massive and accurate firepower ending their personal part of the jihad?

Well, perhaps some man-caused disaster as a reason to prepare will come to mind in a couple days.

Little did I know that is exactly what would happen in Benghazi.

This zombie warning campaign was just before the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on our homeland that left just shy of 3,000 of us dead. This speaks of a determination not to see our nation at war and under threat by enemies.

So I hope this movie gets people to ask--and our government to answer--the question of why no troops or aircraft were sent to Benghazi on September 11, 2012, when outnumbered American defenders were left virtually on their own within the shadow of our military presence in Europe.

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Note on site statistics: When I strip out the junk hits from Blogger statistics that seem to come and go in waves, I appear to have about 10,000 hits per month.

My old statistics package, Site Meter, seems to miss a lot and even disappears visits after they've appeared.

I just added a new StatCounter. So far it shows far fewer hits than Blogger and is more in line with Site Meter. But I suspect neither of the non-Blogger statistics register hits from social media. So I'm not sure what my audience size is. It is puzzling to me.

Of course, it is quite possible that my failure to use Facebook and Twitter has handicapped me in getting an audience. Or it may be an additional issue. I may be a blogosaur!